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        !             2: the following are the perl programs i use to integrate pgp with mail
        !             3: and tin (my newsreader of choice). they seem to work pretty well, but
        !             4: they are hacks first & foremost, so you'll have to tweak them to get
        !             5: them to work on your system. if you come up with any improvements
        !             6: i'd appreciate a copy. other than that, do with 'em what you will.
        !             7: 
        !             8: these are the programs:
        !             9:    morepgp: a pipe and wrapper for more (or your standard pager) which
        !            10:             extracts PGP blocks and runs them through PGP.
        !            11:    mailpgp: a wrapper for vi (or your standard visual editor) which
        !            12:             gives the user the option of signing & encrypting a message
        !            13:             when they finish editing it.
        !            14:    postpgp: another vi wrapper, which only gives the option of signing
        !            15:             a message & handles environment variables slightly differently
        !            16:             since tin doesn't have a set of its own.
        !            17: 
        !            18: installing with mail:
        !            19:    in your .mailrc, set the mail PAGER variable to morepgp, and the
        !            20:    VISUAL variable to mailpgp. make sure both programs are in your
        !            21:    path (or their paths are fully specified in the vars) and that the
        !            22:    #! lines correctly point to perl on your system.
        !            23: 
        !            24: installing with tin (may apply to other newsreaders too, but no guarantees):
        !            25:    write a shell wrapper for your newsreader that sets the variable
        !            26:    VISUALBAK from $VISUAL and sets VISUAL to postpgp before calling
        !            27:    the newsreader. the newsreader will then call postpgp whenever you
        !            28:    edit a new post, allowing you the opportunity to sign the message
        !            29:    before sending it.
        !            30: 
        !            31: bugs:
        !            32:    mailpgp & postpgp only sign/encrypt the -last- item on the
        !            33:    command line. this isn't normally a problem since i never edit
        !            34:    more than one file for news or mail. if it is for you, change 'em
        !            35:    & send me updates.
        !            36: 

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